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A study of dengue imported to Kuwait during 1997-1999.
Acta Virologica 2001 April
This study was carried out on sera from 210 patients in Kuwait in 1997-1999. All of the patients were suffering from febrile illness and had recently visited dengue- (DEN) endemic areas. The sera were screened for DEN virus by inoculation into cultures of the Aedes albopictus cell clone C6/36 (virus isolation) and by IgM capture ELISA (detection of DEN virus-specific IgM antibodies). In the cell cultures, DEN virus could not be isolated from any of the patients' sera. However, sera from 19 patients were positive for DEN virus-specific IgM antibodies. All these 19 sera were tested for the presence of DEN virus-specific RNA by reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) using DEN virus types-common (consensus) primers. In addition, the type of DEN virus was identified by using type-specific primers in a semi-nested PCR. The results showed that two of the 19 patients were infected with DEN virus type 2. This report of 19 patients with serological evidence of DEN infection indicates that imported DEN is a real threat to Kuwait, a country non-endemic for DEN but with a large portion of the population vacationing in DEN-hyperendemic areas during the peak DEN season and then returning to Kuwait.
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